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1. IN A MACHINE TOOL; A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING GUIDEWAY COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED APART STATIONARY GUIDE RAILS AND A BODILY MOVEABLE GUIDE RAILS OPERATIVELY INTERCONNECTED THEREWITH TO CONSTITUTE A TRANSFER PATHWAY FOR CONSTRAINING EDGE SUPPORTED WORKPIECES AGAINST LATERAL MOVEMENT IN EITHER DIRECTION; A REVERSIBLY OPERATIVE POWER DRIVE CONNECTED TO MOVE SAID MOVABLE GUIDE RAIL IN ONE DIRECTION RELATIVE TO SAID STATIONARY GUIDE RAILS FOR OPERATING ON A WORKPIECE POSITIONED ADJACENT SAID MOVABLE GUIDE RAIL, SAID POWER DRIVE BEING OPERABLE TO MOVE SAID MOVABLE GUIDE RAIL IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION FOR RETURNING IT TO TRANSFER GUIDING POSITION; A CARRIAGE MOVABLY CARRIED IN OPERATIVE PROXIMITY AT ONE END OF SAID GUIDEWAY AND BEING PROVIDED WITH SPACED GUIDE RAILS OPERATIVE TO SUPPORT A PLURALITY OF WORKPIECES ON EDGE IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION; A POWER DRIVE CONNECTED TO INDEXABLY POSITION SAID CARRIAGE FOR ALIGNING ONE OF THE WORKPIECES CARRIED THEREBY WITH SAID LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING GUIDEWAYS FOR SUBSEQUENT POSITIONING MOVEMENT THEREALONG; A POWER DRIVEN TRANSFER MECHANISM OPERABLY CONNECTED TO TRANSFER AN EDGE SUPPORTED WORKPIECE FROM SAID CARRIAGE INTO LATERALLY SUPPORTED GUIDED ENGAGMENT WITH SAID GUIDEWAY AND TO ADVANCE WORKPIECES THEREALONG FOR POSITIONING ONE EDGE SUPPORTED WORKPIECE ADJACENT SAID MOVABLE GUIDE RAIL; MEANS RESPONSIVE TO TRANSFER MOVEMENT OF A WORKPIECE FROM SAID CARRAIGE CONNECTED TO ACTIVATE SAID POWER DRIVE FOR INDEXABLY MOVING SAID CARRAIGE; AND, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO RETURN MOVEMENT OF SAID MOVABLE GUIDE RAIL TO TRANSFER GUIDING POSITION CONNECTED TO ACTUATE SAID POWER DRIVEN TRANSFER MECHANISM FOR TRANFERRING AND POSITIONING EDGE SUPPORTED WORKPIECES ALONG SAID GUIDEWAY. 